There are only two people I can think of whose photos cause me to wince when I suddenly

[Atticus]

encounter them on the internet or TV: Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor-Greene.

This is not a simple attack on their physical appearance. Those photos slap me in the face with the simple-minded evil they so proudly flaunt. My lip curls, my eyes narrow and I am reasonably sure my blood pressure surges upward in what I guess is a sort of instinctive "fight or flight" reaction.

I choose to fight.

[Walleye]

1. I have sort of spent my life trying to avoid people like that, now they keep shoving them at us

[Hekate]

2. I've tried to figure out why I hate MTG's face, & I think it's thuggishness...

She looks like a thug who wants to be Generalissimo.

Trump looks like a thug who was Generalissimo and wants it all back, and more.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. There's a Cro-Magnon look about her...

[Harker]

12. I always thought more Neanderthal, but primitive for sure. n/t

[TheRickles]

13. Yep, beat me to it. :-)

[Harker]

36. I've seen some forensic reconstructions that are eerily like her. n/t

[Celerity]

51. here

[Harker]

52. That's her!

(shudder)

[VGNonly]

22. Troglodyte...?

[Harker]

25. I can certainly go with that...

[The Unmitigated Gall]

38. We're learning such interesting things

About Neanderthals these days… I thought I’d reach for something else.
Cro-Magnon just sounds good but it’s still giving too much credit.
Maybe…”Australopithecine”.

[Harker]

42. I'm getting an anthropology crash course here at DU. n/t

[Marcuse]

30. Cro-Magnons were Homo sapiens like us, but there was some interbreeding as well as some resemblance

https://forbetterscience.com/2018/07/02/the-anti-social-mini-brains-of-neanderthals/

[The Unmitigated Gall]

39. Aha! Exactly the picture I was thinking of!

[hamsterjill]

7. There is definitely something about her face!

I’m not forgetting Trump here. His mouth drives me nuts. Looks like a tiny butthole and his flailing little arms don’t help his cause any either.

That said, Greene just looks swollen or something. Not fat. Swollen. Strange. Unnatural. Maybe it’s the empath in me and I feel the evil same as was mentioned up thread.

I avoid looking at both of these jerks (and several others).

[niyad]

24. Someone here in DU suggested steroid use in her case.

[lastlib]

33. I been calling TFG "AnusMouth" for years....

Because one looks like the other, the same stuff comes out of both, and they're interchangeable.

agree, MTG looks like some female bodybuilder who doped for awhile and then quit.

[madinmaryland]

37. Way too many steroids.

[BeerBarrelPolka]

44. HGH

Human Growth Hormone

[Hassler]

31. As Keith Olbermann calls MTG, Barney Rubble's body double.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

40. Ok, you win!!!

[pwb]

3. They make me wish there was a screen black button

on my T V remote. I once counted over twenty flattering pictures of trump on a single cable channel segment just because they were talking about him. They repeat it many times daily. I cut the cable but catch it on you tube. Sick. Yeah Mag green too.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. I can't stand people who always seem to be smirking

Like Trump, or Gym Jordan

[The Unmitigated Gall]

5. I still react to Limbaugh, Rove and Cheney (with his grotesque chickenhawk sneer)

Shrub's face is still punchable, which somehow makes it slightly more tolerable.

[CrispyQ]

8. Oh, IDK, I think the GOP is full of punchable faces.

Oh, my bad. You said wince.

[ananda]

9. MTG is one of the ugliest women on the planet -- inside and out.

Period

[Deuxcents]

10. My blood pressure goes up when I see them on tv

I instantly think something not good is about to happen.. I’m usually right

[Paladin]

11. After all these years, images of Ted Cruz still enrage me.

Cruz claims to be one of my senators, but I've never taken him seriously. I mean, I'm a Texan so practically all my politicos are bottom-of-the-barrel asswipes. But Cruz? Puh-leeeze...

[Probatim]

14. 11 responses to get to Rafael Cruz.

I often daydream about the noises he'd make if I gave him a solid jab to the face.

Probably tear my rotator cuff but it would be worth it.

Not that I'm advocating for violence - but we all know how he makes us feel.

[Paladin]

16. Guys like Cruz and DeSantis, with primo Ivy League Educations...

...and they turn out to be absolute fuck-holes. Go figure...

[Probatim]

20. They were likely absolute fuck-holes in high school too.

Not very popular or attractive but probably pretty smart. Probably had a chip on their shoulders because they couldn't get laid.

Now they're punishing anyone who isn't like them and lording themselves over the rest of us.

[japple]

15. Throw Ron DeSantis in there. And make sure he's wearing those

white boots so everyone will laugh at him.

[calimary]

19. I never got what the white-boots thing was all about.

[japple]

43. Here's an article from Orlando Weekly explaining things.

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/florida-gov-ron-desantis-gets-clowned-for-white-boots-photo-op-after-hurricane-ian/Slideshow/32611217/32611232

And be sure to read the comments.

[calimary]

48. If I'd just started on my hot tea when I clicked on that,

my whole wall would have been dripping in tea after I “power-sprayed” it when I started laughing! All I had to do was get to the “Limecat”!

OMG…

[Tree Lady]

27. Add Pence with the fly

On his head. His fake piety makes me cringe.

[calimary]

49. He's the most sanctimonious jerk I've ever been forced to listen to.

Fake piety on steroids. Wonder if he worked with an acting coach?

[LisaM]

17. I still feel that way about Reagan.

His oily looks make me wince. His horrible, insincere unctuous voice makes me want to leave the room.

[calimary]

21. YES. The Beast.

And there are STILL people who worship that phony-ass snake-oil salesman. Never understood it then. Still don’t, now.

[Mr.Bill]

26. It looked like he did his hair

with shoe polish and Crisco.

[MontanaMama]

29. Imagine his pillow case

in the morning!

[Mr.Bill]

18. I usually avoid criticizing someone's physical appearance,

but in Trump's case, he wasn't born with that ridiculous hairdo, he does it to himself.

As far as Ted Cruz goes, he has single-handedly made me doubt the value of an Ivy League education. Universities should seriously consider making their degrees revocable.

As for Marjorie Taylor-Greene, she is simply a pig. Only difference is pigs are smarter.

[peppertree]

23. As good a nutshell description of those cretins as I've ever read

Clowns like those are the inevitable result of letting elites choose puppets and stooges to represent us all.

They're not only incapable of doing their jobs, in anything resembling representative democracy - but cost us respect around the world, besides.

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. Yes, pure unadulterated evil usually makes me flinch also.

[AllaN01Bear]

32. every time i see tr-p. i either want to scream, throw my device out the window

and terrlible , horrible things .

[NBachers]

34. There is just something . . . wrong . . . with them, and it revolts me.

[Aussie105]

35. Both of them remind me that

1. The media is attracted to noise makers. Any logic in the noises they make is coincidental.

2. Human evolution reached a peak a while back and is now in reverse.

[barbtries]

41. dang

there's a shitload of people who inspire that response in me

mitch mcconnell
dick cheney
nixon
reagan
boebert
gaetz
jordan
conway (can't listen to her talk)

on and on...

[Emile]

45. I'll add Gym Jordan and Ted Cruz too. Hell add McConnell too.

[yardwork]

46. For me, also Lauren Boebert and a few others.

[Elessar Zappa]

47. Those two, yes.

Also I’ll add Ted Cruz and Matt Gaetz.

[Skittles]

50. aw no, I would add DeSantis, Abbott, Boebert, Cruz

OOOOHHH THERE'S SO MANY OF THEM